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jonberger

@jonberger@sfba.social

Lawyer and amateur musician from Sonoma County, California. Will share cute pictures of his cats on the slightest provocation.

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Nonilex, to Law
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Thurs 9 May, 2024 🧵

The prosecution asks that the defense be precluded from asking whether she was arrested. Justice agrees w/the prosecutors, saying that “anybody can be arrested” & that it “doesn’t prove anything.”

The people call Stormy Daniels back to the stand

atty begins questioning by saying that in 2011, Daniels denied having had sex w/Trump.

jonberger,
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@Nonilex Besides, striking comments like that is 100% futile. Actually it's worse than futile; it just draws attention to them. The old saying is "if you throw a skunk into the jury box, you can't instruct the jury not to smell it," but if you TRY to instruct the jury not to smell it, you'll just get them thinking really hard about how bad it is.

skykiss, (edited ) to Law
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Criminal defendant Trump Threatens Citizens of the United States.

jonberger,
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@skykiss And to be fair, if he did rule it out nobody would believe him.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Andrew Weissmann said this last night. These are creative, and hopefully potentially effective, options:

options in addition to fine/jail:

  • put a monitor over his use of social media posts
  • hold sentence on a contempt finding until after trial over
  • advise Trump that his contempt of gag order can be considered at sentencing upon conviction.

All can be used by Judge Merchan.

jonberger,
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@MarkRDavid @GottaLaff I came here to say that. His social media posts are quite closely monitored already. It's not like he can post stuff on Truth without anyone noticing. If there were a court-appointed monitor, then one more person would notice, but that doesn't address the question "so, then what?"

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

1/

jonberger,
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@Teri_Kanefield I think your autocorrect is doing that thing autocorrect does when you use technical legal terms. ;)

Brandi_Buchman, to random
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have just set himself up for a First Amendment fight from hell.

DeSantis says Satanism is ‘not real’ and ‘not qualifying’ for new Florida school chaplain program

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/desantis-says-satanism-is-not-real-and-not-qualifying-for-new-florida-school-chaplain-program/

jonberger,
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@Brandi_Buchman I strongly suspect that Gov. DeSantis is about to learn that messing with the Satanic Temple is almost as bad an idea as messing with the Mouse.

jonberger,
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@3dogcouch @Brandi_Buchman... which is exactly Satanic Temple's point. They just have a more elaborate way of saying it.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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It is unwise to abuse a kobold who serves you.

For if they are freed, their revenge will be terrible.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/concerning-part-30538661

jonberger,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore My takeaway from this is that it's unwise to STOP abusing a kobold who serves you.

jonberger, to animals
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All packed and ready to head for the airport!

Nonilex, to journalism
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Thread countering the & narrative () that under is worse than under .

Source: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

jonberger,
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@Nonilex Of course, the MAGA responses to that would be (a) everybody knows the National Bureau of Whatever is a front for the Biden crime family, so of course they're lying, (b) that's because law enforcement ignores crime by immigrants and goes after white US-born men because they're all run by woke politicians, and (c) that's because immigrant criminals are sneaky and devious and learned how to not get caught from criminal masterminds back in their home countries. There's no point trying to persuade these people with facts (not, I realize, that that's what you were trying to do).

jonberger, to FolkMusic
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It's a very high bar, but this may be the best ever.

https://xkcd.com/2910

north, to random
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I just received the first one, so I figured I would share.

I now get served with documents any time anything gets posted to the docket on Georgia v. Trump, et al.

(Don't ask...)

jonberger,
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@Bam @GottaLaff @north Thank you! I'd never even thought about the literal meaning of "interlocutory" before. That's a very useful way to think about it.

barnetboy, to FolkMusic
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A folk song for Sunday. The Black Velvet Band:

https://youtu.be/Vow4nEoaH5Q

jonberger,
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@barnetboy This singer is pronouncing "hair it hung" very, very carefully. I gather he's familiar with the well-known Mondegreen and is trying to avoid it.

GottaLaff, to random
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I got offline early yesterday. Couple of things happened that I must post, so forgive me if you’ve seen them. 1/…
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Via Ron Filipkowski:

So, Marge says she told Biden, “Say her name, Lincoln Riley.” So Biden does that & gets ridiculed by Greene & MAGA for supposedly mispronouncing it. He pronounced it exactly the way Marge says she told him to in this clip.

Acyn:
While criticizing Biden for mispronouncing Laken Riley’s name, MTG makes the same mistake and calls her Lincoln Riley

jonberger,
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@GottaLaff I have a mental image of Roberta Kaplan, never taking her eyes off the TV screen, reaching for her phone, calling her paralegal, and saying "You need to come in to the office right now. Yes, I know it's Saturday. It's important."

CultureDesk, (edited ) to movies
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There are no categories for animals in the Academy Awards, though last month, the Academy announced on X, "The Oscar for bestest boi goes to Messi from Anatomy of a Fall." Esquire magazine recognized this grave injustice last year, when it gave Jenny the Donkey from "Banshees of Inisherin" the first annual Best Animal Actor award. Here's their breakdown of animal actors this year. We want to know, what was the most iconic animal performance of all time.

https://flip.it/sBD7SC

#Movies #Oscars #Entertainment #Culture #Animals

jonberger,
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@CultureDesk I'll nominate Milo from "The Mask."

jonberger,
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@CultureDesk Well, I should darn well hope so. He was adorable. And I don't even like dogs that much. How about Pyewackett from "Bell, Book and Candle"?

MikeDunnAuthor, to workersrights
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Today in Labor History March 8, 1857: Women garment workers picketed in New York City, demanding a 10-hour workday, better working conditions, and equal rights for women. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike.

jonberger,
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@MikeDunnAuthor Ok, now I'm dying to know: is this image a vintage one, or a modern one in vintage style? What I'm really wondering, of course, is whether this was the inspiration for the Pete Seeger / Lee Hays song.

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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🤦🏻‍♀️ " Senate Passes Bill Preventing Presidents From Ballot Removal Under

As states eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on if should be allowed on the ballot for supporting an insurrection, Arizona Republicans took the first step on Monday to ensure Trump won’t be removed from their state’s ballot"

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-senate-passes-bill-preventing-presidents-from-ballot-removal-under-14th-amendment/

jonberger,
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@GottaLaff @Wileymiller "If you ignore the rules, people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so they don't apply to you." (Terry Pratchett, "Equal Rites.")

Nonilex, to Law
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In Taking Up ’s Claim, Bolstered His Strategy
By scheduling a hearing for late April on TFG’s assertion that he cannot be prosecuted for his actions in office, the justices increased the chances that he will not face by Day

jonberger,
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@BohemianPeasant @Nonilex The concern is that if Trump is actually elected <delicate shudder> and there hasn't been a verdict yet, he's likely to immediately appoint an Attorney General who will fire the Special Counsel and dismiss the entire case. Whether an AG can do that or not is unclear to me; the point of special counsels is that they're supposed to be independent from the rest of the Justice Department. But the general idea is that if Trump is President, he's the head of the branch of government that's responsible for prosecuting people in federal courts, and that's a Bad Thing when he himself is being prosecuted in a federal court.

On the other hand, even if he wins the election, he won't be President until January 20, 2025, so they'd still have a shot at convicting him,

jonberger, to Cat
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My clever Henry did a really nice thing for me today. The track wheel on my fancy Logitech Lightspeed gaming mouse had quit working, and I had resigned myself to having to buy a new one. Right about when I was discovering that this model has become kind of rare and they're painfully pricey to replace, Henry jumped up onto my desk and kicked the mouse to the floor. The battery cover came off and the battery came out. When I reassembled it, the scroll wheel was working. Good boy Henry!

Nonilex, to ethelcain
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From the incomparable :

Supreme Court is a

chief justice was downright gleeful.

He quoted Genesis in his — I’m sorry, his concurring opinion — in the AL ruling that turned on its head by defining as children.


https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/archibald-alabama-supreme-court-is-a-theocracy.html

jonberger,
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@Nonilex I have to wonder: so, ok, in Alabama, if you destroy a frozen embryo, you can be sued for wrongful death. I have to wonder how far this principle extends. The obvious next step is prosecution for homicide by the government, and that's very likely coming soon. But isn't the very act of freezing it in the first place egregious child abuse? Shouldn't people who do that be punished exactly the same way as a parent who puts what I guess I now have to call a "post-birth baby" in the freezer?

GottaLaff, to DaftPunk
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We’re approaching territory….

Via Emptywheel:

GOP now openly admitting that they blew $41M -- in their own salaries alone -- pursuing a no-evidence of , all for naught.

Jordain Carney:

increasingly acknowledging they don't have the votes to impeach :

Bacon estimated 20-30 are not in favor "mainly because it smells bad what he did, it looks bad, but when you ask them what crime is committed — they can’t tell you"

jonberger,
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@GottaLaff Yes, but Biden crime family. Did we mention Biden crime family? Have we said the phrase "Biden crime family" often enough? Because BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. I mean, it's a crime family, and he's a Biden, so, you know he HAS to be a criminal. Because Biden crime family. What more do you need to know?

qurlyjoe, to random
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Why is yikes plural? Why so many yike?

jonberger,
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@jotokla @amyfou @qurlyjoe According to etymonline.com, it's probably derived from "yoicks," a fox-hunting call that was supposed to get the hounds moving. Which doesn't help, because that just raises the question of why it takes more than one yoick to accomplish that.

jonberger,
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@amyfou @jotokla @qurlyjoe If just one of them starts running, that will answer the question: multiple yoicks for multiple dogs.

Minimus, to random
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fabula murina (mouse story) LXII
mures in prato hiemale pabulantur (The mice are foraging in a wintry meadow). Silvius fungos in plostellum ponit (Silvius puts mushrooms in his wagon) Minimus horret sine focale (Minimus shivers without a scarf)!

jonberger,
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@Minimus Doesn't the "ur" ending on "pabulantur" denote passive voice? I'm remembering (vaguely) Caesar's "nostra Galli appelantur," in our [language] they are called Gauls.

jonberger,
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@Minimus Ok, interesting. I don't recall deponent verbs. Maybe they hadn't been invented yet; I took Latin a really long time ago.

Does that explain "res ipsa loquitur"? We translate that as "the thing speaks for itself," but I always assumed, because of the passive ending, that it literally means "the thing is spoken by itself." But maybe that's another one of those deponent verbs?

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